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More years better lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/31/more-years-better-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 31, 2011 http://www.jp-demographic.eu/process the EU programme on demographic change is a central point for finding the latest social science research in ageing across Europe.
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Database of Terrorist Incidents
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/02/database-of-terrorist-incidents/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2011 https://wits.nctc.gov/FederalDiscoverWITS/index.do?N=0 The National Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC) maintains the US Government’s database on terrorist attacks.
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UK Council for International Student Affairs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/21/uk-council-for-international-student-affairs/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 21, 2011 The UK Council for International Student Affairs website http://www.ukcisa.org.
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Churnalism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/03/04/churnalism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2011 http://churnalism.
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World Service Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/06/17/world-service-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive The BBC World Service archive of radio podcasts provides access to documentaries.
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FRAGEN
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/fragen/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 http://www.fragen.nu/aletta/fragen Fragen (FRAmes on GENder) is an electronic library of full text feminist works published since the 1960s.
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US elections and politics pages from Google
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/us-elections-and-politics-pages-from-google-and-you-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results Useful for tracking progress in the 2012 presidential race! Includes the 2012 political calendar from pbs http://www.pbs.
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New frontier database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/new-frontier-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 Columbia Journalism review has launched a new database which aims to index and provide information about digital news outlets in the USA.
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World Economic Forum launch Information Technology website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/05/10/world-economic-forum-launch-information-technology-dashboard-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2011 The World Economic Forum has launched an information technology website which enables users to view charts by country of internet users, network infrastructure, and mobile phone...
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Map Kibera
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/map-kibera/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 Another interesting example of citizens and aid agencies using social media for community empowerment/development. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is a city suburb.